Word Meanings - LEGALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 .

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• STRICT
  Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
• LEGALITY
  1. The state or quality of being letter of the law.
• STRICTNESS
  Quality or state of being strict.
• CONFORMITY
  1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. By our conformity to God. Tillotson. The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. Dr. H.More.
• STRICTURED
  Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.
• LEGALIZE
  To interpret or apply in a legal spirit. (more info) 1. To make legal.
• WORKSHOP
  A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
• STRICTURE
  A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. Arbuthnot. (more info) 1. Strictness. A man of stricture and firm abstinence. Shak. 2. A stroke; a glance;
• LEGALLY
  In a legal manner.
• WORKSHIP
  Workmanship.
• LEGALISM
  Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.
• LEGALIZATION
  The act of making legal.
• STRICTLY
  In a strict manner; closely; precisely.
• THEOLOGY
  The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; "the knowledge derivable from
• LEGAL
  Governed by the rules of law as distinguished from the rules of equity; as, legal estate; legal assets. Bouvier. Burrill. Legal cap. See under Cap. -- Legal tender. The act of tendering in the performance of a contract or satisfaction of a claim
• STRICTION
  The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted. Line of striction , the line on a skew surface that cuts each generator in that point of it that is nearest to the succeeding generator.
• ADVOCATESHIP
  Office or duty of an advocate.
• LEGALIST
  One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 .
• ASTRICT
  To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to
• BOA CONSTRICTOR
  A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.
• INCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity; nonconformity.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• CONSTRICTION
  1. The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression. 2. The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.
• ILLEGAL
  Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.
• VASOCONSTRICTOR
  Causing constriction of the blood vessels; as, the vasoconstrictor nerves, stimulation of which causes constriction of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasohypertonic. n.
• PHYSICO-THEOLOGY
  Theology or divinity illustrated or enforced by physics or natural philosophy.
• CONSTRICT
  To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or ause to shrink. Such things as constrict the fibers. Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.
• ADSTRICT
  See ASTRICTION (more info) -- Ad*stric"tion, n.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• PANTHEOLOGY
  A system of theology embracing all religions; a complete system of theology.
• ATHEOLOGY
  Antagonism to theology. Swift.